Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

>>> 9. The richness of the vocabulary related to horses in
>>> Germanic is an indication that proto-Germanic-speakers
>>> took an active part in the horse domestication. Cf.
>>> mar-ko < LW of Asiatic *mor-(?)-
>
>> But cf. Celtic *markos 'horse' (Old Irish _marc_, Welsh
>> _march_, apparently also in Gaulish). Pokorny erects PIE
>> *marko-.
>

>
> This word is probably a "Wanderwort" of eastern origin,
> that established itself in Celtic and Germanic alongside
> the inherited PIE word for 'horse', *h1ek'wos (OIr. ech).
> Attempts to connect it to Skt. márya- 'youth, foal' are
> not convincing (Celtic points to non-IE a-vocalism of
> *marko-).
>
> Brian
>

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Asiatic languages have *mor(?)
which makes it impossible that the wanderwort could be marko
mor(?-) became *mar- in a language that has *o >a.

We have already discussed the fact that hekwos (I don't even bother to put
an asterisk on that thing) is not a possible word.

Arnaud

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